Metaphysics : the big questions /
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| Imprint: | Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998. |
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| Description: | xiii, 498 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy, the big questions ; 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3331732 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: What is Metaphysics?
- Part I. What are the most General Features of the World?
- Introduction
- A. What is the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics?
- 1. Universals and Resemblances Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience
- 2. The Elements of Being
- 3. The Principle of Individuation: An Excerpt from Human Knowledge, its Scope and Limits
- 4. Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory
- B. What is Time? What is Space?
- 5. Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence
- 6. McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: An Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy
- 7. The Notion of the Present
- 8. The General Problem of Time and Change: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought
- 9. The Space-Time World: An Excerpt from Philosophy and Scientific Realism
- 10. Topis, Soris, Noris: An Excerpt from The Existence of Space and Time
- 11. Some Free Thinking about Time
- 12. The Fourth Dimension: An Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe
- 13. Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions
- 14. Achilles and the Tortoise
- 15. A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: An Excerpt from Space, Time and Motion
- 16. Grasping the Infinite
- 17. The Paradoxes of Time Travel
- C. How do things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties?
- 18. Of Confused Subjects which are Equivalent to Two Subjects: An Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic
- 19. Identity Through Time
- 20. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis
- 21. Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities
- 22. In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to 'Survival and identity'
- 23. Some Problems About Time
- 24. The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: An Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds
- 25. Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism
- D. How do Causes Bring about their Effects?
- 26. Constant Conjunction: an excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature
- 27. Efficient Cause and Active Power: An excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind
- 28. Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: An Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind
- 29. Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic
- 30. Causality and Determination
- Part II. What is our Place in the World?
- Introduction
- A. How is the Appearance of a Thing Related to the Thing that Appears?
- 31. The Theory of Sensa: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought
- 32. Qualities: An Excerpt from Consciousness and Causality
- 33. The Status of Appearances: An Excerpt from Theory of Knowledge, 1st edition
- B. What is the Relation Between Mind and Body?
- 34. Which Physical Thing am I? An Excerpt From 'Is There a Mind Body Problem?' (Roderick M. Chisholm
- 35. Personal Identity: a Materialist Account
- 36. Dividend Minds and the Nature of Persons
- 37. Body and Soul: An Excerpt from The Evolution of the Soul
- 38. The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
- C. Is it Possible for us to Act Freely?
- 39. Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without it
- 40. Human Freedom and the Self
- 41. The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom
- 42. The Agent as Cause
- Part III. Is There Just One World?
- Introduction
- 43. Speaking of Objects
- 44. After Metaphysics